I also have a Fairphone 5, and hoping the work will trickle down, if not, it would be super helpful to kinda have your thoughts for how you did your work for each piece of rhe FP6 so people can try it themselves with their own hardware. I’ve been meaning to start digging into getting more stuff working on my FP5 but haven’t had the time, or honestly expertise yet.

Everything about modern America is passing off the risk to someone else, usually the public. and privatizing everything so that corporations make money from what should be government run services. We do have services that does background checks and ask for last 5 address you’ve lived and various personal information, but its all being stored in some corporations database, not wrll protected, whrn it should be protected at all costs by government systems.

Cybersecurity is a joke, corporation’s get hacked and its just a fun ‘oopsies’, our own government got hacked over 10 years ago releasing the uniquely identifying numbers (social security numbers) of government employees that had clearances and top secret information, and our government just said, ‘oops that sucks, here’s 1 year worth of identify theft/fraud monitoring’ notice I said monitoring they dont actually protect you against identify theft, the agency just tells you when they happen to notice your info is being used publicly.

All of this is by design so that someone’s company makes money through contracts, and no one has to spend more money on cyber security, or be at fault at the end of the day, and the public gets to pick up the pieces.

We could have a better system for uniquely identifying people, but there is an argument to be made, that in the hands of a tyrannical government, that system can get used against you very quickly, but low-and-behold, here we are with a tyrannical governement, with the fun added bonus of no way to actually protect yourself financially from fraud, identify theft, or tyrannical government.

Basically being American is every person for themselves, I absolutely fucking hate it.

I think you missed the part where its a medically necessary app.

AndroidAPS

And

Xdrip+

They’re both open source, but you’re dealing with possibly killing people if there’s a bug with injecting insulin, or reporting blood sugar values wrong, haha so its a feat I’ve steered clear of, myself.

AndroidAPS

And

Xdrip+

Understood! Like I said they’re medical apps for diabetes, so its not a great thing to try to make a linux-port because you have to do testing and make sure there’s no issues compared to the android version.

The way the apps work with waydroid is they need direct bluetooth access, or they need a pathway for the signals to get passed through to the container, via a fake bluetooth stack.

As far as I’m aware waydroid right now just routes supported things from the host device to the waydroid container, such as networking, audio, and I guess input from keyboards, gamepads, etc. Those devices don’t have direct bluetooth support in the android container, the linux host is just passing things along to the container, there’s just no supported path for a blood sugar monitor, or an insulin pump info to get to the waydroid container right now.

This is awesome, I have a fairphone 5 and hoping some of this work will help the finished development for the FP5!

Sort of related: is there any interest in looking at getting bluetooth support, or bluetooth passthrough to Waydroid? I have a few medical android apps that need bluetooth in the android container to be able to actually use them, and it seems to be stalled in the Waydroid development git discussions.

Yah, I guess I should have described it as ‘mainline’ linux kernel for PostmarketOS

Just an FYI, PostmarketOS has some desktop apps in the alpine linux repos, and it supports flatpak apps as well. Only issue is PostmarketOS uses the Linux kernel instead of android Kernel like Ubuntu Touch does, so the hardware support to get a working phone is still lacking. Right now VoLTE is still not working fully, and cameras are not fully supported.

Ubuntu Touch is the easiest to just get a working phone with, because it uses the Android kernel that ships with the device, but I absolutely like the flexibility in desktop environment, and availability of flatpak apps on postmarketOS. I honestly can’t wait until I can switch full-time to postmarketos.

I would much rather have more software developed for postmarketos

I had an idea to mess with Facebook feeds to see if you could get people fed up enough they would stop using the platform as much.

Convince everyone you know to screenshot and share every ad the Facebook platform puts in your feed, and encourage others to do the same. So others people’s feeds just start to become real ads, mixed with screenshots of ads, shared by your network of social connections, then everyone would start complaining the platform is just ads, and hopefully stop using it as much. Who knows if it would work, but I got a good laugh from it.

I usually check ebay when i need electronics batteries, but you have a chance of a seller selling knock off batteries that as you said, could be sketchy. I’ve personally never had an issue, but YMMV.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ups+battery

I noticed it’s an AI assistant you’re supposed to be problem solving with, that probably will not end well. Hopefully you can actually get a human from their customer support number on their site:

In US. 1-888-221-1161

Outside US. 1-402-935-2050

6am-6pm PST Monday-Sunday

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/contact-us

Who knows if this is true because I don’t have the expertise to understand if it is or not, but supposedly the explanation given by the GrapheneOS team is that the pixel phones were the only phones that had the hardware security strong enough to provide the security model GrapheneOS wanted.

What is VB in this context, virtualbox?

I’m confused by this comment, (and the up votes) OpenSnitch is the fully open source application. It even says so in the article.

“If I ever needed to track down which specific application is making suspicious outbound connections, I would turn to OpenSnitch, the fully open-source, community-driven application firewall for Linux. It is not as polished as the new Little Snitch port, but every line of its code is open for inspection and it does not ask for blind trust.”

I just can’t comprehend how much you’ve seen change in 112 years of life, that’s just insane. 1914-2026… Horse and buggies to automobiles, indoor plumbing, commercial flights, invention of television, the space race, personal computers, the internet, cellphones. Entire changes in farming and agriculture, sanitation improvements, just an unbelievable amount of change in society.

It depends on what kind of devices you’re using.

It’s my understanding that SIM cards in phones are just to tie an account and identity to your phone, for purposes of enforcing people to be paying customers for the phone/data services, and tracking your usage based on what level service you’re paying for and what you should receive (5GB of data monthly, unlimited texts, etc)

But if your phone doesn’t have a SIM card in it, its still connecting to cell towers for purposes of emergency dialing, and the phone itself can continue to be tracked by cell carriers based on what physical cell towers its connecting to, as you travel around. The cell phone modem itself can control and connect to networks independently of what the OS running on the phone tell it to do, its a self contained black box.

If you have something like a desktop or laptop, both Intel and AMD have “management engines” embedded in the CPU’s themselves that can take control of the device for purposes of shutting down, wiping, etc a company machine that has sensitive information or access on it, and has been reported stolen, not returned by an ex employee, etc. These management engines have direct access to the network stack and can phone home whenever a network connections is present, either from a WiFi network, physical Ethernet cable, or 4G/5G WWAN card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

If you have a device that is basically air gapped, no WiFi, no cellphone chip, no bluetooth, etc, than it’s still possible to exfiltrate information off the device, but the software running on the device would have to be programming to be searching for methods to do that. Your average device, unless it’s running malicious software, probably won’t be doing that.

The security conference DEFCON and other technical conferences are held every year at Vegas, I wonder if someone from DEFCON put it there, lol

I had messed around with Linux and failed for a while, as I was using dialup and was trying to get win modem drivers working under linux. Fast forward a few years later and I finally switched when i finally had broadband, and the concept a virtual machine was really becoming industry standard in late 2000’s, and I wanted to start experimenting with them, I hated trying to hunt down windows licenses for each VM I wanted to run, and I started messing around with Linux in VM’s as they were free. Thank Tux, I finally started running Ubuntu on my bare metal machines around Ubuntu 7.04 I think, my WiFi drivers “just worked” and it was magical.

Is calling voLTE audio working yet? I have the OP6T and have postmarketos edge installed but last time I updated it a few weeks ago voLTE still wasn’t working with audio in the calls. My last hold out to start using it as a daily driver.